Financial Conduct Authority names Brexit head

FCA appoints former City lawyer to help it negotiate the UK's withdrawal from the EU and its future on the international stage

By

Lucy McNulty

February 1, 2018 Updated: 11:47 a.m. GMT

The Financial Conduct Authority has appointed a former lawyer to guide it through the UK's exit from the European Union and set the agenda for its post-Brexit future.

Nausicaa Delfas was today promoted, after just over a year as the watchdog's chief operating officer, to the newly-created role of executive director of international, according to a statement from the FCA.